Study the Buddha's teaching which is present in every moment.

Every being has the potential of becoming a Buddha. Our true nature is Buddha nature.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

Meditation is not an escape from life but a way to fully engage with life.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

When thoughts arise, recognize them as the display of your own awareness, like recognizing your own children in a crowd.

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.

The most important factor in achieving happiness is the mind. Happiness and suffering are mental states and therefore depend on the mind.

In the moment of pure noting, there is no self - only the knowing and the known.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

The challenge in meditation is not to eliminate thinking but to understand the nature of thought itself.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Happiness is not about getting what you want, but wanting what you've got.

Just observe whatever arises. Don't try to create anything, and don't reject anything.

The menu is not the meal.

Zen in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

Though the view should be as vast as the sky, keep your conduct as fine as barley flour.

The root of all suffering is ignorance. The antidote to ignorance is wisdom that realizes emptiness.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence.

The root of suffering is not in the world outside us but in our own minds.

Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer, see it, know it, be empty.

The zazen I speak of is not meditation practice. It is simply the dharma gate of joyful ease.

Start from where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

The sign of wisdom is constant joy.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

The true person is not anyone in particular. But like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world.